@article{Louisson_2020, title={Protecting Biodiversity via Metaphysical Angels of the Future }, volume={17}, url={http://www.identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC/article/view/450}, DOI={10.51151/identities.v17i2-3.450}, abstractNote={<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Global trends in contemporary left biodiversity protection practices are self-undermining because they are fixated on resurrecting past ecological conditions, while failing to prepare for the future. Not only will many species be unable to survive in predicted future conditions, but focusing on the past has forfeited the future to capital. Instead, this paper presented at the ISSHS School for Politics and Critique 2020 takes the recently resurrected figure of Prometheus to promote an environmentalism that casts its eyes to the future. It will be argued that preparing the future for biodiversity can sever capital’s claim over the future by prompting a traumatic instance of physicality.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Author(s): Amalia Louisson</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Title (English): Protecting Biodiversity via Metaphysical Angels of the Future</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Journal Reference: </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Page Range: 76-80</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Page Count: 5</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Citation (English): Amalia Louisson, “Protecting Biodiversity via Metaphysical Angels of the Future,”</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020): 76-80.</span></p> <h2><strong>Author Biography</strong></h2> <p><strong>Amalia Louisson, University of Melbourne</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amalia Louisson is a teacher, researcher, and Political Science PhD student at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on the relationship between psychoanalytic fantasies and environmental degradation, and how confronting the nihilism of the real can spur the conceptual and technological innovation needed to address that degradation. She advocates reconnecting philosophy with real politics and the future.</span></p>}, number={2-3}, journal={Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture}, author={Louisson, Amalia}, year={2020}, month={Dec.}, pages={76-80} }